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BeefySwain | 2 months ago

Consider that this isn't just a random AI slopped assortment of 9,000 tests, but instead is a robust suite of tests that cover 100% of the HTML5 spec.

Does this guarantee that it functions completely with no errors whatsoever? Certainly not. You need formal verification for that. I don't think that contradicts what Simon was advocating for though in this post.

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WhyOhWhyQ|2 months ago

I think it would be interesting if professional engineering becomes more like producing formally correct documents for the AI to implement.

ncruces|2 months ago

We have these tools that we use to write formally correct documents.

They're called programing languages, and a deterministic algorithm translates them to machine code.

Are we sure English and a probabilistic algorithm is any better at this?